days of dozing dogs
the wishes
would be mine
though I guess
these
days belong to dogs
bloodhound-looking dogs
reclining
on
a porches
in days that are wet and heavy
without the break
of rain
and this way ‘til September
when we hope
the change in
name
alone
will make a difference
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TV says so
it was a newsperson
summer’s
over
I hear
and is that so
no
more extended day for play
vacations must be done
or not
happening
and all sights must be set on school
all shopping and
all
interests
and we might plead
not a student
or
a teacher and have that apply
except the seasons of the culture
are determined
by
180 days
and yellow buses
flashing lights and how to
plan
for holidays
as
well as what
to hope
by way of learning into
training for the generation taking over
once
the time of graduation speakers
done and paper handed out
suitable
for
framing
and
well
regarding end of summer
well
say it isn’t so
Joe
though Joe had to admit
it was
so
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ash Thursday
we take the ash
once a year
on
foreheads a dark
cross
that becomes misshapen
as the hours pass
along and
some might talk about
the soil
mark
on the forehead
but
the rule is let the stain stay there
for the day
and
into night
finally
to clean
all to be minded of mortality
as if
we were not aware the time
is boundaried
by birth revealed
and
then birth closed over
[dark day today is all]
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I’ve been especially sick for some days now. I thought I must have caught something and had been told that with heart disease and compromised immunity that even small infections matter more. Then friends reminded me about the haze from Canada that has been moving regionally and is passing, more like settling, where I live as well. So maybe it’s both causes: some minor infection with the addition of what’s so much worse for those closer to the fires.
Anyway, in response to concerns, I thought I should say something about what’s happening. Thank you so much.
this is Owl Awareness Day
North American freedom
250 years ago
count
further back to Plymouth
to
Columbus
to Lief Erickson
and others still to discover since
not
everyone can leave a home behind
for
evidence
and Rome a thousand years
half as a more-honest
republic
with occasional tyrannies assigned
to lead
local forces against foes
then anything like dictatorship
resigns
returns to farming
and this isn’t
to describe usual elections but when
the weapons clash
blade
against sheld and armor
so close
the threat
as we don’t know these days
in
a supremacy
that’s voted in
in
order to remain
self-styled demagogues
who
aren’t so good at demagoguery and yet
we let them
in and
should know better
and
we do
we know that emperors have new clothes
and what the raiment’s made
of
while honest work’s unnoticed
and
there’s building only on
fragile clay
no virtue to congeal
without doubt
to fall
the school in heaven
philosophy must fail
as all analogies unravel
as
schools let out for life and though we must be something
on the inside
we
never are done deals
in spite of all the arguments
and heaven is philosophy
I guess
all done
and giving over
the last class
and
sorry
if you were otherwise so glad
never
to have to learn in rows again
and yet the brain
the mind
the learning
goes
goes on
this
side as well as maybe
and I think over
there
coz
at the zoo
I said
hi
cousin
to the monkey
simply to upset you
yet
I prize our species closeness with
the animals
and don’t know except
by adaptation
over
generations
evolution’s proven
and so our God is
God of
that
as with all creation miracles
and as for missing links between ourselves
and branched-off
primates
or
to have it that we are branches broken
from the tree
well
I wonder sometimes
if
the link is the intrusion of the Spirit
to move us on and especially
to
know
and to bear wisdom in the keeping
of the rest
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“Great horned owl Please tag @hyneseyes on Instagram for credit, thank you :)”
Ontario, Canada
ill and lack of sleep
go on breathing in bad air
incite un-trees green
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[I don’t know if whining justifies haiku and with intrusion]
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[is it a sickbed or a healthy invitation and-or sometimes serving both aims?]
the pope’s concert
one channel carries
the global
event
it is a Christian event
that might keep certain folk from watching
and
especially
to hear
it is a global event that narrow sight
would turn and lead
away
those
whose walls pretended to be gold
and
thoroughness of wealth
also control
pretense to earthly power
and
should the devils weep except
to
know there is
such withholding by such willful ignorance
with great effort
never
to confront
the good
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Monday acceptably
really now
what shall I say
today
a Monday in the USA and half
of elsewhere
or
where it might be yesterday
tomorrow
how many groan maybe
in silence
while
having risen or having gotten up and then
mentally increasing toward awake
maybe those who have fewer days until
the start of the school
year
which is mathematic
but also in an
attitude
and newly
Monday-aware that
that
freedom’s breath shall soon be constrained
in time lengths of periods
and
days for several months
and seaons for nearly all who live in this
reality
are changing soon
and the air in that
received
and breathed
and
so
last of vacation thoughts regardless
if we leave
to think this way a while
longer
with all the reminders from the sales
and
how they have us think ahead
if desired or not to have to
do so
and it’s Monday after Sunday
so for many
by now
there has been church
or temple or daily
visitations
that might have a feel for the culture
while for many the experience was an exercise
in
dullness
helping along our own or
were we changed at
all
and who knows
maybe a few
though it’s God of Monday
too
and so keep close to offer inhalation
or further inspiration to
see
to the chores with maybe happier thoughts
and words
for
being a new day
of days
as well
and better for the attitude
more so
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A
my friend is diagnosed
it’s only
at the start
and
there are other things
like how I breathe in
infestation
or who is killing whom in Iran
Palestine
Ukraine
and
Yemen
to mention all the volatility in so many lands
that
do not
take the grace to get along
but he is
sick
and it’s a creeping kind
that works its way
well
through nervous
systems
I suppose
and should take years
and
then take the time of living and
and of waiting
here
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“Halogen filled blown glass forming a brilliant structure which was installed at the Cheekwood Gallery in Nashville, TN”
a trying prayer
and maybe for a Friday before Saturday or any day before another day or for the day
God
I am so through and through
as
if my nuclei
are crying for more
rest
in a way that is child-
insistent
and it is frustrating that there’s nothing to
rest into
for the body and closed eyes for
a while
so let me sleep and awake again
with
more to look forward to
that affects the how
then
there’s what we might work for or have
provided
from I think
a net of sharing
as
the better way we are connected
with respect
by
listening and encouraging
what
is needed by way of what’s missing
and so arranging
on and for
the Earth
as
well as anywhere we go
so
God provides and so
we have
the model for each other
please
amen
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